UK crime

Heroin addict Kieron West from Leicester left the corpse of his postman dad Peter in his house for three weeks and spent his wages. He has been jailed for 40 months.

Kamil Snios, from Tottenham, North London, has been jailed after launching into a vicious homophobic attack that saw him stamp on his victim's leg until it snapped.

Paul Smith, stepfather of Charlie Dunn, jailed for manslaughter after stepson drowned at Bosworth Water Park in Leicestershire.

Homeless drug-user Aaron Barley, 24, admitted to stabbing Tracey Wilkinson, 50, and her teenage son Pierce at their home in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in March this year.

Errol Hanson, 51, from Catford, south London, knifed Mohammed Savare more than 50 times after the burglar headbutted and punched him, Southwark Crown Court was told.

Tim Varchmin, a high-flying City lawyer, has spoken of his relief of being cleared of child porn and drug charges after he blamed guests attending his Grindr "chem sex" parties.

Diane Chilcott, 40, and Daniel Pusey, 21, plied girls aged from 13 to 15 with cigarettes and alcohol before driving them to hotels, where they were sexually exploited.

Wendy Thomas, 50, from Cardiff in South Wales, was stopped by border control officers in October 2016 at the Eurotunnel terminal with 3 illegal immigrants in their car.

Daniel Aimson, 36, formerly an officer with Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was at the head of a drugs gang selling cannabis in Manchester and North Wales.

Christopher Parker, 33, who has 84 previous convictions, attacked 91-year-old Audrey Bremner in a street mugging 100 metres from her home in Blyth, Northumberland.

John Walshaw, 56, from Grimsby, was branded a 'paedo' after being spotted with a half-dressed 15-year-old girl and a bottle of wine down an alley.

Hakeem Hussain died from cardiac arrest when he was left outside a house in Birmingham. His mother, 35, and great-uncle, 56, were arrested for neglect.

Clubber Sam Cook, from Crosby, was stabbed to death on 21 October while celebrating his 21st birthday in the basement of the Empire nightclub in Liverpool city centre.

The eleven-strong gang carried out 49 drone flights and 'throw-overs' into British jails mainly consisting of pre-ordered drugs but also tools, phones and a TV box.

Birmingham Crown Court heard that Simon Bramhall branded "SB" on the organs of a man and a woman undergoing transplant operations at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Phillip Daniels was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 22 years at Liverpool Crown Court after being found guilty of the murder of Paul Millea.

Armed thugs burst into jewellers in broad daylight and attacked a shop assistant after tricking staff into opening the door at SP Green in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham.

Jinal Pethad, 29, from Edgware, London, opened 105 sham accounts for two Moldovan nationals involved in the scam using fake ID documents.

Samuel Armstrong, 24, an aide for South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, allegedly raped a woman in his boss's office in the Palace of Westminster in October 2016.

Demi Pearson, 14, Brandon, 8, and sister Lacie, 7, died in the fire on Jackson Street in Walkden, Salford, with 5 people now arrested in connection with the suspected arson attack.

Detectives investigating the double murder of sex offender Noel Brown and daughter Marie Brown in Deptford, east London are looking at whether they were killed by a vigilante.

Amanda Leather, 28, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, smoked cannabis and drank alcohol with a 15-year-old boy before having sexual activity with the child.

Charlie Pearce, from Leicester, had been out celebrating his 17th birthday when he raped and bludgeoned his victim in Leicester's Victoria Park last year.

Merseyside resident Alexander Dobbie was handed a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of making indecent images and one count of possessing them.

The boy was burned with cigarettes during a 36-hour ordeal prior to the alleged sex attack in a disabled toilet in the Bristol's Children's Hospital, Bristol.

Six arrested after police in Staffordshire uncover more than 3,000 cannabis plants in former poultry barns in Wheaton Aston.

Stephen Stott, 23, and Dean Jones, 34, were arrested after US Homeland Security investigators discovered large groups of paedophiles watching rape videos together.

Northamptonshire Police say 13 missing Vietnamese teenagers, all aged between 14 and 18, have vanished from Northampton and Corby between June and September this year.

George Smith, 48, was given a suspended jail sentence, after he was found standing on a wooden crate having sex with a mare in a stable in Hinckley, Leicestershire.

David O'Brien, 39, in Strangeways prison, Manchester, got a second life sentence after pleading guilty to slashing a man's throat after he thought he had stolen his rosary beads.